h2o
Orgmode-formatted READMEs for your ELisp
Copyright (C) 2009 Thomas Kappler Copyright (C) 2011-2016 Puneeth Chaganti
- Author: Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@muse-amuse.in>
- Created: 2011 March 20
- Keywords: lisp, help, readme, orgmode, header, documentation, github
- URL: https://github.com/punchagan/h2o
This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
Licensed under the GPL version 3 or later.
Commentary
The git-based source code hosting site http://github.com has lately become popular for Emacs Lisp projects. Github has a feature that displays files named “README[.suffix]” automatically on a project’s main page. If these files are formatted in Orgmode, the formatting is interpreted. See http://github.com/guides/readme-formatting for more information.
Emacs Lisp files customarily have a header in a fairly standardized format. h2o extracts this header, re-formats it to Orgmode, and writes it to the file “README.org” in the same directory. If you put your code on github, you could have this run automatically, for instance upon saving the file or from a git pre-commit hook, so you always have an up-to-date README on github.
It recognizes headings, the GPL license disclaimer which is replaced by a shorter notice linking to the GNU project’s license website, lists, and normal paragraphs. Lists are somewhat tricky to recognize automatically, and the program employs a very simple heuristic currently.
Dependencies
None.
Installation
(require ‘h2o), then you can call h2o-generate manually. I have not found a way to call it automatically that I really like, but here is one that works for me:
(require ‘h2o) (dir-locals-set-class-variables ‘generate-README-with-h2o ‘((emacs-lisp-mode . ((h2o-generate-readme . t))))) (dolist (dir ‘(“~/Projects/wpmail/” “~/Projects/h2o/”)) (dir-locals-set-directory-class dir ‘generate-README-with-h2o)) (add-hook ‘after-save-hook ‘(lambda () (if (boundp ‘h2o-generate-readme) (h2o-generate))))
History
2009-11: First release. 2011-03: Forked for Orgmode.
To Do
- Fix codeblock rendering
README.org generated from the library header in h2o.el by h2o